THE LORD ONLY GIVES!!

On many funerals, at least the few that I have been to.
I have often heard the PRIEST, REVEREND, CANNON, POPE...etc
say, THE LORD GIVES and THE LORD TAKES AWAY!

I think this should be REPUDIATED in the strongest terms possible.

This quote was taken from the book of JOB.
But we need to know that Job made this statement as a response to his friends who had come to visit him at his lowest... ( Psalms 141:5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.)... is what he wanted to say to them I assume.

However it was by FEAR that Job went under trial.
The devil wanted to taste if Job worshiped God out of love or fear.

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.

As a ritual, JOB made a "FEAR" offering. one aimed at "BRIBING" God for FEAR that his children had cursed GOD.

6 Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before God, that Satan also came among them.

7 God said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Then Satan answered God, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

8 God said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

9 Then Satan answered God, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

10 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

12 God said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of God.

BREAK DOWN:

The next six chapters, we see that satan, went to accuse Job of loving GOD for what HE does and not WHO HE is. But God knew Job's Heart and was willing to let satan attain the defeat he asked for.


The rest is HISTORY. After the devil had taken away, GOD GAVE in measures of 10's and 100's FOLD.

EVIDENCE:
PROVERBS 10:22 God's blessing brings wealth, And he adds no trouble to it.

BRETHREN: LET US AGREE that GOD GIVES!!.... GOD GIVES!!! and GOD GIVES!!!

Be blessed
AK